Sen. John Kerry on Monday snapped at reporters and tried to dodge questions about his new $7 million, 76-foot yacht....Following his first public appearance since the story broke, Kerry tried to dash off to his SUV but was intercepted by reporters who asked about the yacht controversy.

A March 22, 2005, USA Today article detailed a vacation the Kerrys took on Heinz-Kerry’s private jet to a ski resort where her late husband had a private cabin. (Her private jet, “The Flying Squirrel” was apparently named for a ski trail there). That story wasn’t covered on ABC, CBS or NBC.

She owns five luxury homes and a private plane, The Flying Squirrel. Mrs. Kerry’s fortune — now estimated at $1.2 billion — has been her passport to a world of privilege and power far beyond that of the average political wife.

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Surely the happy couple's yacht is a sailing vessel, right? You know, renewable energy power and all that. Certainly such a contientious, progressive lifestyle has no place for one of those empty-Kuwait-into-my-tank sort of ostentatious motor yachts, right? If they have any class at all it's a gorgeous ship built from renewable forest products. I'm sure they compost all of their caviar leftovers before they toss them in the water, too.